download the iso file again and run md5sum racy-5.3-BABYbarebones.iso in terminal (navigate to the download folder where the iso is, right click in the whitespace of the folder, then 'window' and then 'terminal here')

se if the output matches that shown below

3c0f41e3172e8d2701ff93c47cf8a5b racy-5.3-BABYbarebones.iso

is there any reason why you have chosen this puppy version? maybe a little too stripped?!

if you still have problems I would try another build (I find slacko 5.3.3-4g has worked on everything I've tried) and see if you have similar issues

I am an experienced novice. Experienced in that I have played with puppy from near the first release [I can't remember what year that was; around 2001 I think]. My entertainment is distro-hopping. But I ALWAYS keep puppy on one of my partitions and always have a few puppy CDs and USBs around.

I'm a novice in that I know [- nothing!] about programing. I mean, its a thrill when I am able to copy and paste something into a terminal and it works. How bad is that?? But I'm old so please forgive me.

The reason I chose this flavor of puppy is that I was puppy distro hopping and found it; I actually use very few applications and I have been thinking that it would be nice if there was a distro of 100% Puppy [Pure Puppy] if you will. I was thinking of using a stripped down version and adding the applications I use if that makes sense to you.

So now you know everything.
Once again I thank you and really all the fine people who make Puppy for the great work you have done so far and I'm sure will continue to do. I believe there are multitudes of people out there who appreciate and enjoy Puppy just like me.

I just tried racy-5.3-BABYbarebones today and I like it!! I downloaded several apps but the different internet browsers I tried wouldn't open for me. What should I do??

TKS
keheni67

I'm posting from Seamonkey 2.17.1 in racy-5.3-BABYbarebones right now in a fresh pfix=ram setup.

Both Seamonkey and Firefox need the dbus packages to work. If you go to the PPM and type "dbus" in the search window you will see dbus-1.2.4.2permissive-w5 and dbus-glib-0.82-w5. If you install them both then Seamonkey and Firefox should work for you.

In general if you try starting programs in a terminal window it will tell you which dependencies are missing. Sadly this doesn't always translate to the name of the package which contains the missing files. In this case it wasn't too bad but sometimes it can require a lot of detective work. Google is your friend (I think ).

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